Your favourite race so far this year?

skut
skut Posts: 371
edited August 2007 in Pro race
To get away from all the drug threads (?) - which race this season have you enjoyed watching most?

For me, I'd have to say Gent-Wevelgem. I must have watched Burghardt and Hammond work over Freire and Ventoso a few times now, and I still can't believe they had the legs to do it.

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  • hangsheadinshame
    hangsheadinshame Posts: 299
    To watch...le tour despite the bollox. To take part in...it is a toss up between the 4th Chevin Cycles TLI race (on Milby) or the YLCA 10 on the V718 ('cos I did a PB like over half the entrants did!)
  • Mr Bumble
    Mr Bumble Posts: 572
    Moreau winning the Dauphine Libere for me....

    A beautiful week of exciting racing with some entertain twists
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Mr Bumble wrote:
    Moreau winning the Dauphine Libere for me....

    A beautiful week of exciting racing with some entertain twists


    DL was ruined by the unreal performance of the Astana team for me.


    My highlight was seeing Stuey O'Grady harden the fcuk up in the Paris-Roubaix
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    O'Grady PR for me too
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    I'd have to say the whole Flanders-GW-Roubaix week. The three races were a treat and having them all in one week was incredible. Whoever says spring classics are boring without rain was sleeping this year.
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    The latter part of Paris–Roubaix certainly had a heroic quality.

    I also liked the Bergamo stage of this year's Giro: a number of team leaders were in breakaways with Di Luca's team forced to chase for a long time, Schleck chasing the peloton after a crash in order to stay in contention on GC, Garzelli hanging on to Simoni's wheels on the final cobbled climb and snatching the win from him in the final metres.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I loved the Giro...it was great to see such stages as the Laveredo...the Briancon finish with Di Luca and Simoni racing to the line had me off my seat...superb...and That Zoncolan...I really like Gibo taking that...if you looked at his face it was like that stage meant more than anything in his life....

    Not just that but for me it showed young Andy Schleck as a great new breed coming through...and also the great domestique Piepoli...he was just great....not so sure about the new Italian stallion who took the Laveredo stage.....reckon Piepoli totaly gifted him that.

    Last year the best race for me was the Vuelta....hope its as good this year.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Paris-Nice was a good one. The last stage with Contador attacking on the Col d'Eze and then Rebellin fighting hard and coming sooo close to defending his lead.
  • 12volt
    12volt Posts: 32
    got to be stuart o'grady winning paris roubaix awesome !!!! :D
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Giro for me especially the stage up Zoncolan when the overall was still up for grabs and and the stage into Briancon over the Izoard. Final day of Paris NIce wasnt too bad either.

    cheers
    MG
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • hangsheadinshame
    hangsheadinshame Posts: 299
    I loved watching the Giro until it became clear tht Di Luca was doing rather too well. Di Luca winning the Giro totally discredits the race for me.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Paris-Roubaix for me too - there was so much going on.

    And for a time-trial, the penultimate day of the Tour was really exciting.
    Twitter: @RichN95

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